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Course Outline
Module 1: Traditional Development Approaches
- 1.1 Overview of Sequential, Predictive Development Approaches
- Explanation of sequential, predictive 'Waterfall' methodologies
- Evolutionary timeline of Waterfall approaches
- 1.2 Strawman Waterfall
- Dr. Winston Royce's Waterfall model
- Advantages of Waterfall for project control
- Inherent risks identified by Royce
- 1.3 V-Model
- Concepts of early verification and validation
- Benefits of the V-model approach
- 1.4 Incremental Models
- Case study: Rational Unified Process
- Incremental delivery strategies
- Scope breakdown and risk management
- 1.5 When to Use Waterfall
- Applicability for defined process control
Module 2: PRINCE2 Overview
- 2.1 What is PRINCE2?
- Definition and historical origins
- PRINCE2 Certifications: Foundation, Practitioner, and Agile
- Key benefits of adopting PRINCE2
- 2.2 PRINCE2 Methodology
- Roles: Project manager, customer, user, supplier, and project board
- Management techniques: Project assurance and project support
- Scope: Interaction with contracts and contractual management
- Controlling Change: Risk, quality, and change management
- 2.3 PRINCE2 Process Model
- Directing a project
- Starting up a project
- Initiating a project
- Managing stage boundaries
- Controlling a stage
- Managing product delivery
- Closing a project
- Planning
Module 3: Agile Overview
- 3.1 Historical Overview
- Timeline of 'Agile' ideas from the 1990s to the present
- Early Agile approaches: Scrum, XP, and DSDM
- Subsequent Agile developments: Kanban, BDD, DevOps, and Scaling
- 3.2 The Agile Manifesto
- Background context for the creation of the Manifesto
- Overview of the Agile Manifesto
- Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
- Working software over comprehensive documentation
- Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
- Responding to change over following a plan
Module 4: Agile Principles
- 4.1 The 12 Agile Principles
- Group discussions focusing on each principle
- 4.2 Summary of Agile Concepts
- Iterative planning and development
- Continuous improvement
- Continuous learning
- Collaboration and face-to-face communication
- Collective accountability
- Cross-functional teams
Module 5: Agile Project Management with Scrum
- 5.1 The Scrum Framework
- Overview based on the Scrum Guide 2016
- Scrum roles and responsibilities: Scrum Master, Product Owner, and Team
- Scrum events: Sprint, Sprint Planning, Review, Retrospective, and Daily Scrum
- Scrum artifacts: Product Backlog, Sprint Backlog, and Product Increment
- 5.2 Agile Project Management Principles
- Empirical Process Control
- Iterative planning and reporting
- Continuous Improvement and retrospection
- Resource management and teams
Module 6: Software Testing
- 6.1 Testing Fundamentals
- The Fundamental Test Process
- Planning, Analysis & Design, Execution, Evaluation, and Closure
- Test levels: unit, integration, system, and user acceptance
- Test approaches: requirements-based, risk-based, and experience-based
- Test design techniques: white-box and black-box techniques
- The Fundamental Test Process
- 6.2 Agile Testing
- Overview of Agile Testing Quadrants: test strategy and planning
- Test-driven development
- Principles of test automation: test automation pyramid
- 6.3 Test Types
- Technology-facing tests that guide development
- Unit testing, TDD, smoke tests
- Business-facing tests that guide development
- Story tests, examples, acceptance testing
- Business-facing tests that critique the product
- Exploratory testing, Alpha/Beta testing, UAT
- Technology-facing tests that critique the product
- Performance testing, usability, quality attributes
- Technology-facing tests that guide development
Module 7: Traditional Business Analysis
- 7.1 What is Business Analysis?
- Definition of business analysis and the role of the business analyst
- Levels of business analysis: enterprise, project, and operational
- Core principles of Business Analysis
- 7.2 IIBA BABOK Guide – Knowledge Areas
- Business Analysis Planning and Monitoring
- Elicitation and Collaboration
- Requirements Life Cycle Management
- Strategy Analysis
- Requirements Analysis and Design Definition
- Solution Evaluation
Module 8: Agile Business Analysis
- 8.1 Agile Business Analysis Considerations
- Iterative development
- Cross-functional teams
- Collaboration between business and technology areas
- 8.2 Behaviour-Driven Development Overview
- Origins in TDD and recent developments
- Definitions: BDD, ATDD, and Specification by Example
- 8.3 BDD Activities
- Focusing on features that deliver business value
- Collaborative derivation of features
- Keeping options open
- Using concrete examples to illustrate features
- Writing executable specifications
- Creating living documentation
- 8.4 Agile BA Techniques & Tools
- Business value definition
- Personas
- Impact Mapping
- Real options
- User Stories and acceptance criteria
- Relative estimation
- Given-When-Then template
- Tool support for BDD
14 Hours
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I enjoyed all of Day 1.
Peter
Course - Contemporary Development Principles and Practices
Very informative and gave a nice overall summary of the course outline.
